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 Mar 6 2008, 12:26 AM
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I have a problem that might have to do with hardware. I have a year old Dell e1705 laptop and it was working fine the other day. I than tried turning it on and all I get is a black screen after the dell logo appears. I can't even get onto safe mode. I pressed f8 numerous times to no avail. I than tried to reinstall the windows xp but it doesn't work either. After I get to the "Please press anything to startup windows xp cd" it does not work. Does anyone know what the problem might be? 
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Mar 6 2008, 10:48 AM
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 Tech Apprentice  Posts: 746 From: SL,UT OS: Windows Vista, XP, Server 2003, Mac OS classic, Mac OS 10.x |
Try plugging in an external monitor to see if the problem continues. It could be three things - the video driver, the video card, or the LCD screen. Let's find out which.
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Mar 6 2008, 11:29 PM
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QUOTE (The Admiral @ Mar 6 2008, 10:48 AM)  Try plugging in an external monitor to see if the problem continues. It could be three things - the video driver, the video card, or the LCD screen. Let's find out which. Thing is I don't know how to plug an external monitor. But if the dell logo shows up and I can get on bios, won't that rule out the lcd problem? Thanks for replying. 
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Mar 10 2008, 03:09 PM
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 Ruler of Omicron Persei 8  Posts: 20,683 From: kn-ARGH!-xville Tenn-ARGH!-see OS: 3.1, 95, 98SE, xp, 2000, NT4, 2003 Standard Edition, linux (various flavors) 
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QUOTE (chipy100 @ Mar 7 2008, 01:29 AM) QUOTE (The Admiral @ Mar 6 2008, 10:48 AM) Try plugging in an external monitor to see if the problem continues. It could be three things - the video driver, the video card, or the LCD screen. Let's find out which. Thing is I don't know how to plug an external monitor. But if the dell logo shows up and I can get on bios, won't that rule out the lcd problem? Thanks for replying. you're correct i'd assume it's not the LCD screen since you can see SOMETHING on the screen...so basically as soon as you get past anything related to POST (which is where you bios info shows up and the dell splash screen shows up) the screen goes black (including the safemode prompts if you press F8)? |
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